Lake View, SC
How exposed is Lake View to wildfire?
Lake View sits at the 76th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 538 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lake View at the 75th percentile, close to its 76th-percentile risk score.
Lake View's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Lake View (62.6% of 538 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 37.4% sit in the Direct zone.
Lake View against the rest of the country
Lake View scores 76th nationally and 75th within South Carolina — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake View ranks 7,696 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,758 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Carolina alone, it ranks 120 of 474 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lake View
Lake View's 76th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 62.6% of Lake View's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Lake View's 76th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lake View, see the exposure-zones guide.